02 September, 2020 – Episode 789 – Science with a TWISt

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Black Hole Merger, Bacteria merger, Female Science, Water Source, Future Food, Road Kills, COVID Update, Armed By Food, Happy Mice, Microbiome Age, Brain Beats, Dark Stars, And Much More…

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Earth

It’s at most a medium sized planet with a lot of humans

Billions of them even

More humans than you are likely to run into on any other planet

And despite sharing the same star

Each one sees the world in a different light

For the most part we humans walk past each other

Seldom knowing how or what the other thinks about this or that

But every once in a while we cross paths with one of these humans

And we strike up a conversation…

And every once in a long while we find

That there is a another human who sees the world very much like we do

Has a similar ethic or aesthetic appreciation

Chases similar sparks of curiosity into the weeds of contemplation

Lighting up the conversations path like a lightning storm on a dry summer night

Ed Dyer, long time listener, contributor and conversation starter here on TWIS

Was one of those humans for me and for a lot of our TWIS family

His spark will be missed but not forgotten

As he has inspired many of us

To keep setting small fires to share our thoughts around

Add enlighten our paths as we walk this world together

Thank you Ed for being a big part of why we do

This week in science,

Coming up next…

Let’s start with some quick science news stories…

Black Hole Merger

LIGO/Virgo have confirmed the merger of two stellar mass black holes into a larger black hole ...